My breath reminds me of the mystery of being. Breathe and be grounded. Breathe and be mindful. Breathe and be grateful. Breathe and be...

Tending is a cool word. Mindfulness is about paying attention. Notice "attending" has tending tucked into it. Tending makes me think of...

Here's why the metta practice works for me. I'm an introvert by nature. While social distancing and quarantining got old after a couple...

I sit with my longing to know and be known, to let the molecules of me dissolve into the great aliveness. I long for the oneness that...

Mindfulness challenges me to be present even and especially when life is hard. Metta tells me to keep my heart open even and especially...

Tara Brach describes mindfulness and metta or loving kindness as two wings of a bird: With the wing of mindfulness, you develop the...

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, the fear...

The key way I learned to meditate is by paying attention to the breath. I do this for many reasons: On a physiological level, a slow,...

Religious traditions throughout the world have various methods for contemplating sacred texts. Here’s a time-tested practice for inspired...

I wish you the peace of sleep, your breath a canoe that carries you toward the next moment without any need for you to touch the oars....

While the mind often dwells in the past or worries about the future, the body is always in the present. The breath connects us to the...

Everything breathes. I breathe. Trees breathe. The ocean breathes. The earth breathes. Often I sync up my thoughts with the ebb and flow...

January is a time for beginnings. We mark the beginning of our lives with a breath. I learned to meditate by paying attention to my...

A mindfulness practice is like working out at the gym except you don't need to leave your house, you don't need weights or a rowing...

It's been a month. Thanks for hanging in with me. I hope you've found ways to begin or deepen a regular meditation practice. I've...

As our 30 days together winds down, maybe you're realizing mindfulness is much more than a practice, it is a way of being, an inner...

We started out the month by exploring the benefits of mindfulness and lovingkindness by being present in the here and now. Next we...

For about a year now, I've kept a dream journal and I've read a bunch of books on lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming...

For the past three days, we looked at practices to help foster mindfulness morning, evening, and night. Let's continue this trend and...

I try to let mindfulness be the bookends of my day. Just as I eased into the day, with a bit of self-care and quiet, I try to calm my...